#Azure Action – Weekly Newsletter – 15th July 2011

	Local Overview
	Local Sydney Azure user group established with 12 sessions planned. Congratulations to Conor Brady for taking president responsibility as agreed with 25 attendees!

	Readiness & Resources
Windows Azure:	Extending the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles with PHP and MVC3 Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles Windows Azure Web Role: How to enable 32bit application mode in IIS Application Pool using Startup Task How to Diagnose Windows Azure Error Attaching Debugger Errors
SQL Azure:	Shipping Fast and Scoping Right – Sharding to Federations v1 in a few months - from PDC 2010 to 2011 SQL Azure July 2011 Service Release SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA) v.5.1
AppFabric:	Using Azure AppFabric Service Bus from Ruby Apps Event Processing in the Cloud with StreamInsight Austin: Part I-Building an Azure AppFabric Adapter Building AppFabric Application with Azure AppFabric [Video]
Marketplace:	Windows Azure Marketplace Powers SQL Server Codename “Denali” to Deliver Data Quality Services
Watch:	Episode 51 - Web Deploy and the Windows Azure Accelerator for Web Roles Cloud Cover
Case Study:	Leading Case Management Vendor, Singularity, Announces Success on Microsoft Windows Azure Platform
Tools:	SurePass Announces Secure Cloud Services (SCS) which runs on Windows Azure with Secure Token Services (STS), Active Directory, Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG), and SQL Server 2008

	Guidance
Walkthrough:	Hello World with Azure AppFabric Caching Service (v1.0)
Architecture:	Introducing the Windows Azure Cost Modeler

	In the news:
General:	Bangs for bucks: Our lightning tour of cloudonomics Data ownership becomes fuzzy in the cloud – Does your cloud provide privacy by default?
Microsoft:	MAP 6.0 Planning Tool that can be used to assess Windows Azure deployments
Windows Azure:	Business Microsoft: HP, eBay polishing Azure cloud-in-a-box (honest) New Forrester Report Outlines The ISV Business Case for Windows Azure Just Announced: Windows Azure Marketplace Expands Application Selling Capabilities In US Markets People Scott Guthrie Reports Some Windows Azure Customers Are Storing 25 to 50 Petabytes of Data Vittorio Bertocci (@vibronet) moves to the identity product team as Principal Program Manager

	Events
Global:	WPC11 sessions last week
Webinar:	Scaling SQL and NoSQL Databases in the Cloud Webinar on 7/21/2011 at 11:00 AM PT

	Community
Social:	Become a Facebook fan Add yourself to my Azure Australia Twitter list Keep up to date with our monthly CloudCast Mailing list for OzAzure
Events:	CloudCamp Sydney - July 21st

	Questions
Q:	Where can I find an example for smooth streaming on the Windows Azure CDN?
A:	This Windows Azure Live Smooth Streaming Project is self-contained package for quickly deploying Live Smooth Streaming solution to Windows Azure